Calculators

October 26, 2008

Eating fugu

I’m an unemployed vagrant. All I have is a backpack full of technology, a shoestring budget and a very important list of 50 things to do. When everything is crossed off my list I get to go home. (Not to be confused with Amtrakker)

July 13, 2008

Sleeping Around Craigslist (NSFW post)

It takes a woman about a thousand words and a condom to get laid on Craigslist. But for a woman to be laid properly -- by a passionate lover who knows what he's doing -- well, that's a whole different ball game. Sleeping Around Craigslist

May 11, 2008

Franco!

Once upon a time it was considered good manners for a host to offer his guests a smoke. This custom extended to the President of the United States. Each President, from John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, gave his guests a very special pack of cigarettes. Presidential cigarettes. From Jim Shaw’s Burnt Offerings

For six decades we, the American people, have been victimized by deliberate, knowing scientific fraud, perpetrated by the American Cancer Society and its accomplices, and funded by their corrupt lackeys in Congress, whose goal is totalitarian dictatorship over every detail of our personal lives! Worthless Congresspussies Still Bend Over for the Anti-Smokers! The History of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco

March 20, 2008

On March 8, pianist Yosuke Yamashita donned a fireproof suit and played a burning piano on a beach in Ishikawa prefecture. The improvised jazz performance went for about 10 minutes until the flames rendered the piano silent

Don Knuth is has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms, contributing to the development of, and systematizing formal mathematical techniques for, the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms, and in the process popularizing asymptotic notation. Famous quote: "I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime"

(By the way, Craig, I got 2 emails from you asking why I didn't answer your original email, and I responded to both of them. It seems that my email carrier keeps filtering your original proposal. Please re-send. Thank you)

May 06, 2004

People’s List of Things to Do Before They Die

Wait until you're 60, and then go outside to rake the leaves in your front yard. When someone drives down your street in excess of 7 MPH, tell that bastard to "SLOW DOWN." Feel satisfied, and then take the rest of the afternoon off. It's Miller Time, and you've earned it. From Rory’s Blyth’s Napoleon

April 06, 2004

What would you do before you die?

After reading the book “100 Things to do before you die: Travel Events you just can’t miss”, I started collecting some lists that people compose of things they want to do with their lives. This collection of lists draws a fair amount of traffic every day to this site. Here are more lists that I recently discovered;

Ubersite imaginative list . No.5: Burst into a massage parlor with a toy gun and a fake badge shouting "FBI! Everybody outside now!" Start snapping photographs of people who come out. Offer to sell the camera to anyone who has $1000 cash on them - 1/8/04